EFS

Does anyone know if EFS in vista will be using AES or if it will be staying
with 3DES

I believe it will have AES 256 but don't quote me on that.

"BAL" <BAL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if EFS in vista will be using AES or if it will be
> staying
> with 3DES

I'm with Peter M. On that one. I was going to reply "Yes" to AES from
memory. But then couldn't find anything to back it up. But it seems I do
recall reading somewhere that EFS uses AES, up to 256-bit. Which I do
believe is what's required for Secret and Top Secret in mandatory access
control settings.



"BAL" <BAL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if EFS in vista will be using AES or if it will be
> staying
> with 3DES

Duh, I didn't think to look in the most obvious place. Search Vista's Help
and Support for AES.

If you go into User Accounts there's a link in the left column for managing
encryption certificates.


"BAL" <BAL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know if EFS in vista will be using AES or if it will be
> staying
> with 3DES

Cipher.exe on Vista has been expanded to display the algorithm information
for encrypted files. Bring up a command prompt and run "cipher /c
<filename>."

Thanks.
Pat
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"BAL" wrote:

> Does anyone know if EFS in vista will be using AES or if it will be staying
> with 3DES